Painting Dreams. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh*

Pangarap Art Workshop for Children

Painting Dreams
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” 

- Vincent Van Gogh*

Dr Abe V Rotor

Author conducts children's art workshop at the 
Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

There was once a girl in the meadow
Gathering flowers for the rainbow,
Matching their colors to the tiniest hue,
Whereupon a shower made them glow.

There was once a boy with new shoes,

Down the street he went heralding the news; 

Everything dissolved in a hazy view,

Whereupon one day rode he down he avenue.

There was an old man walking with a cane;

He saw the girl with flowers in her hair;

He saw the boy whistling down the lane,

And asked where go they beyond their lair.

"I don't know," said she; "Neither I," said he.

The world is wide, why bother where we'll be;

'Til the winds blew and the flowers faded;

And soon and far enough the road ended.

But the old man walked on and on;

At his feet lay flowers strewn on the road,

and saw footsteps without shoes shine

In the sunset draped by a shroud.

This the children painted in kaleidoscope,

In versions a thousand thoughts can blend;

For dreams do make for what we hope,

Lest pride makes that hope in deeper end. ~

* For Van Gogh, painting was not just about creating 

a visual representation of something but rather about 

expressing the emotions and impressions that he 

experienced in his dreams and imagination.

 

PAINT YOUR DREANS means to make your dreams come true.
 

“Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei

Scenes at the Living with Nature Center.  

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne